Halifax: House prices record strongest annual increase for more than two years

The latest Halifax house price index found house prices rose by 2.6% annually to reach £166,898 on average – the largest annual uplift since September 2010.

Strange legal action pursued from day care

One of my friends works at a day care. One of the family that utilized day care has 4 kids. They've decided that it has became too much money and quit day care. Apparently at about the same time, one of the workers at day care got a job working as a nanny for that family. The boss running day care is very upset. She feels that the worker...

Chelsea BS launches two-year fix mortgage at just 1.69%

Chelsea Building Society has been bumped back up the best buy tables with a cut to its two-year fixed rate mortgage from 1.74 to 1.69 per cent. Is it any good?...

ASK TONY: Halifax lost my �0,000 in transit � and made me doubt my own sanity

My solicitor paid the �2,456 from the sale of my house into my Halifax mortgage account, so I could pay off the outstanding balance on my home loan... but it went missing.

Reham Khan Appreciation Society of Pakistan

Stop Press. 5th June 2013 - It is hereby declared that I am laying the foundation stone for creation of All Pakistan Reham Khan Appreciation Society. Reham Khan is a excellent individual with great professional qualities. This appreciation society has not been formed on any perverted agenda due to her amazing looks. At all. It is strictly...

Halifax Savings Barometer: City dwellers save less than their rural neighbours

Savers in Suffolk (left) have the largest nest eggs as a proportion of their income, according to the Halifax Savings Barometer, while Islington residents (right) have some of the smallest.

"Society dictates...."

I've always known this phrase has existed, but only recently have I begun to question it. Firstly, who exactly is "society"? Are we all a bunch of collective entities, thinking the same things, doing the same actions, having the same ambitions? Thought not. Secondly, "society pushes me around...", please provide evidence of how everyone i...

Halifax: House prices jump £6,000 in one year as mortgage access improves

There was more evidence of an improvement in the UK property market today, as the latest Halifax house price index showed property prices rose 1.1 per cent in April.

Knife-wielding robber targets shop worker

Police are investigating a shop robbery in which a lone worker had a knife held to her throat.

Why does society dictate our lives

You keep hearing that society expected you to do this and do that but why are forced or let society tell us how to live our lives for example society expects us to grow up go to school-get an education-go to college-uni-graduate get a job-find someone-date-marry-start a family-grow old-retire-die what sort of life is this and why does soc...

Video: Controversial window display in Halifax, N.S. turns heads

Window displays are common sight in downtown Halifax, but one display in particular on a busy street has passersby doing a double take...

Warning over party drug dubbed 'Dr Death' after the 'super strength ecstasy pill' is linked to deaths of oil rig worker and her partner

Oil rig worker Rachel Clayton and her partner Emma Speed were discovered at their home in Macclesfield earlier this month after a friend went to check up on them.

Extreme Bungee Jumping

Demolition worker escapes the exploding building by bungee cord. Author: s1m0ne Added: 18/04/2013...

Outrage at Tatler's Best Society Breasts feature praising Princess Eugenie's 'Royal Tits'

A triple-page spread on 'the most magnificent, marvellous breasts in all society', featuring 34 famous women praised only for their 't**s', is a step too far for some.

Self-supporting migrant worker

Hello. I'll have been living in UK for over 3 years before start of my course. I'm an EU national. I have less than 3 years work experience, but I have been living on my own the whole time in UK. I've been working for little over 2 years, then I went to college. Since then I have been living off my savings. I am almost 23. I recently sent...

email notifications from exel via outlook

Hi all, Hope you would be able to assist, i need to create an email notification to specific officials after 30 days, 60 days and 90 days. for example I need to send an email: 1 week prior to responsible party 30 days to responsible party 60 days to responsible party + manager 90 days to responsible party + manager + director, The email m...

Halifax building society worker responsible for topping up cash machines stole �0,000

Benjamin Sookia, 26, of Redditch, Worcestershire, was imprisoned for five years after raiding ATM machines and bank accounts for the cash. He stole �7,155 in cash as well as fraudulently syphoning �5,000 electronically.

Halifax and First Direct slash minimum monthly account payments

Those on a lower wage will have better access to top current accounts, following decisions by Halifax and First Direct to slash minimum payments...

How to specify the Ruby version for a Heroku worker (eg. sidekiq)?

I am running sidekiq as a Heroku worker as shown in the following Procfile worker: bundle exec sidekiq -c 5 -v I would like for it run on Ruby 1.9.3 instead of 1.9.1 as shown when running heroku logs -t . I have specified ruby "1.9.3" in the Gemfile and it even shows this when I run git push heroku master -> Using Ruby version: ruby-1.

Leeds: Takeaway worker denies raping man with learning difficulties

A TAKEAWAY worker raped a disabled man in the kitchen of the premises where he worked, a jury heard. Modassar Hussain, 27, is alleged to have carried out the sex attack while working at Lister Fisheries in Headingley, Leeds. A trial at Leeds Crown Court heard Hussain took the man, who has learning difficulties, into the back of the shop a...

Building society roll number - Halifax?

Hello, Do I require a building society roll number for Halifax? as I've recently setup a student account with them, and was told that it is a building society but then conflicting views appeared. Is Halifax a building society? Many thanks,...

Getting a return value back from a web worker

Right now, I've got this, and it works: var myWebWorker = new Worker('myWebWorker.js'); myWebWorker.onmessage = function (myEvent) { $('#Print').append('Return value: ' + myEvent.data + " "); myWebWorker.postMessage(2); My question is: Can I do this instead? var result = myWebWorker.postMessage(2); Because I need the web worker to be syn...

Topping off carto

I think I'm shortening the life of my cartos by topping them off too often:/. How often should I be topping them off and how many drops should I be using to top them off?...

A J F.'s Review of Seattle Humane Society - Bellevue (1/5) on Yelp

Got two 6mo old kittens from them. Humane Society vet gave them a clean medical, good to go.Had to euthanize both of them within two months due to disease they had at Humane Society (per MY vet exam &…...

Is it time you binned your bank? The six myths that keep you from switching to a better deal

Britain's biggest banks have never been more unpopular. But misplaced loyalty and lethargy mean just three in 100 customers move to a rival, smaller bank or building society every year.

Zoya Hussain death: Judge criticises 'remarkably foolish' driving of teenage dairy worker who ran over toddler

Christopher Davidson, 20, was reversing at around 14mph in Halifax, West Yorkshire when he collided with Zoya Hussain who ran into the road from between two parked cars.

Cooperative Society, Cooperative Society Software, Society Software indore ( Indore India)

SNS System Pvt. Ltd., A Five years old software Development Company continuously working & providing 100% customized Software Solutions for "Cooperative Society" . Our "Cooperative Society" software is the mild stone for people who...

UCH CEU, UEM VALENCIA SPAIN DENTISTRY GDC Problems

Before I re-post, I want to make clear that I am not gaining or losing anything by telling you this. But as someone who has been scammed and currently studying Dentistry at UCH CEU I want to let you know what is going on. I HIGHLY ADVICE, to ask M&D, or Read Medicine or whatever other name they trade under, who is the responsible agent...

Bad coffee leads to embezzlement case against law firm worker

A really bad cup of coffee that burned the lips of a Wisconsin law firm worker resulted in a criminal case against a co-worker who is now accused not only of tainting the beverage with a foreign substance but embezzling from her employer. Kay Lee Gysbers was released on a signature bond after being charged with forgery, embezzlement and p...

Tuxedo Stan the Cat is Running for Mayor of Halifax, Canada (4 Pics)

Here is his platform: The reason I got into politics was to convince Halifax Council that we need a program to deal with the cat problem in our municipality. My brothers and sisters are starving, freezing to death in winter and reproducing at an alarming rate. We need a program to address these problems. We need a low cost spay and neuter...

How to Read From App Config in Azure Worker Role...??

Hi EveryOne, I am running a Azure Application which have a web role and a worker role. I am doing some updations to the database tables in worker role. For that purpose i am keeping some variables such as servername, password etc.. in app.config (in worker role). And with in worker role i have some coding part like system.reflection.assem...

Law Society applies for court order to have M Ravi checked at IMH

SINGAPORE: The Law Society of Singapore has applied for a court order to have M Ravi medically checked by a psychiatrist from the Institute of Mental Health to determine if he is fit to practise law in Singapore. Mr Ravi has 14 days to comply. The originating summons filed by the society said should Mr Ravi fail to submit to the medical e...

mod_jk balancer trees

Is it possible to build balancer trees with several levels in mod_jk configuration? for example there is following configuration worker.list=b, b1, b2 worker.t1.port=8001 worker.t1.host=localhost worker.t1.type=ajp13 worker.t1.lbfactor=1 worker.t2.port=8002 worker.t2.host=localhost worker.t2.type=ajp13 worker.t2.lbfactor=1 worker.t3.port=...

How can I tell how many worker dynos I'm using on Heroku?

I'm using HireFireApp to autoscale my web and worker dynos on Heroku. However, when I navigate to the Resque app on my application it says "0 of 46 Workers Working" Does this mean that I'm using 46 worker dynos???...

MessageBox on worker thread

My application has a worker thread doing some files synchronisation. Under certain condition during the sync process. My worker thread needs to make a decision to continue or not. Hence I think I would ask for user feedback by showing a dialog box/message box.. (Yes/No) . which would cause the worker to either continue or stop .. Now the...

Erlang gen_supervisor. Restarting process, if it fails several times, give up and send message

I have several gen_server workers periodically requesting some information from hardware sensors. Sensors may temporary fail, it is normal. If sensor fails worker terminates with an exception. All workers are swapned form supervisor with simple_one_to_one strategy. Also I have a control gen_server, which can start and stop workers and als...

How do I restart celery workers gracefully?

While issuing a new build to update code in workers how do I restart celery workers gracefully? Edit: What I intend to do is to something like this. Worker is running, probably uploading a 100 MB file to S3 A new build comes Worker code has changes Build script fires signal to the Worker(s) Starts new workers with the new code Worker(s) w...

asp.net web application does not load when worker process running

I setup a web application which was running fine but after doing some testing, I ran it on my server and since the back end job was long, I let it run. Now I tried to load the web application from another machine and it won't even load. Is this related to worker processes and application pools or is there perhaps something else possibly w...

XAMPP terminating worker thread 0

Am running PHP applications using XAMPP server in Windows XP. It was working fine just yesterday, but suddenly it started showing the error: "Terminating worker thread 0 and Terminating worker thread 1". Does anybody know what went wrong? Can you suggest the steps I have to do to fix it? My cmd prompt is also disappearing when I open it.

建筑土木工程类SCI期刊英文杂志目录

以下为土木坛子收集到的，对各期刊需要了解详细信息，请自行Google之。 这个网页 提供了部分结构与建筑技术SCI期刊2011年的影响因子。 Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Technology ACI Materials Journal ACI Structural Journal Ashrae Journal-American Society of Heating Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Building and Environment Building Research and Information Canadian Journal of Civil Engin...